Sydney Dark Grant Gallicho over at Dotcommonweal has a hair-raising story about the Archdiocese of Sydney Australia nbsp which can be found nbsp here Here s a preview Australia rsquo s ABC TV seems to have caught Cardinal George Pell of Sydney in a rather serious error In a letter dated Fe

ldquo I was lured into one of the oldest biggest most tempting lies in human history the enemy is not human ldquo And you in this article have done the same toward women You show absolutely no respect for the acts of gestating a fetus and giving birth - giving new life to a human somethin

This is a great article I would like to hear from a former atheist or convert to Catholicism regarding the issue of contraception I have a Catholic friend who sees no problem with using contraception but she is against abortion However she used to make exceptions for rape and incest but she is

nbsp For months now John McCain has been calling Barack Obama na iuml ve or worse for suggesting that a timetable for withdrawal of U S forces from Iraq was not only possible but desirable Obama rsquo s contention has been that only a timetable will force the kind of political solution nbsp t

The debate was long more than seven hours emotional one bishop wept and often bitter ldquo we rsquo re being squeezed out rdquo said one Anglo-Catholic But yesterday rsquo s decision of General Synod the Church of England rsquo s ruling body was clear there will be women bishops aft

From Catholic News Service today Bishops to reconsider liturgy translation rejected in mail balloting nbsp WASHINGTON CNS -- After mail balloting of bishops who did not vote at the spring meeting in Orlando Fla a 700-page translation of one section of the Roman Missal failed to get approval f

This is a wonderful-written article As the past leader of a Ivy League college pro-life group I struggled with how to present well-reasoned articles to pro-choicers who violently objected to my position thought it idiotic and argued exactly from the position you ve identified that the baby wa

I was curious as to whether there was any religious teaching or training in your childhood years Your story gives me hope that other areligious people who are willing to seek answers to life rsquo s questions will find them if they are willing to ask and seek answers Theo Alhaus I had no rel

Jennifer Fulwiler s article A Sexual Revolution has received dozens of comments and at 19 000 hits and counting is the by far the most-read article on America s new Web site This afternoon and tomorrow Jennifer will be answering questions posed by readers To ask a question of your own post

Anglican drama moves this week to the northern English campus of York University where the five-day Synod is deliberating on the traditionally divisive issue of women bishops There is no question that the Church of England will shortly have them the issue this week is whether traditionalist Angli

Barack Obama is not shy about sharing his personal life with the rest of us Indeed if you decide to run for the presidency you should anticipate that every nook and cranny of your life will be examined in excruciating detail But his speech to the African Methodist Episcopal Church last week in

A young feminist embraces the pro-life cause.

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Washington Funeral Mass for Tim Russert The presumptive Democratic and Republican presidential nominees were among the scores of mourners at the private funeral Mass on June 18 for the NBC News Washington bureau chief and “Meet the Press” moderator Tim Russert, who died suddenly June 13

A Guarantee Thank you for “The Forgotten,” by Pierre de Charentenay, S.J. (6/9). The fate of Iraqi Christians should be as important to humanity as was the fate of Muslims in Sarajevo in the early 1990s, and their tragedy should inspire the same solidarity around the world, especially fr

A review of Ron Hansen's novel about Gerard Manley Hopkins